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04/12/2023

12/09/2023

01/09/2023

19/08/2023

Promoting the Truth isn't synonymous with being woke. It involves embracing the unvarnished reality of our complete American History, even when it's disturbing, violent, or shameful. This includes acknowledging incidents like lynchings, massacres, and genocide.
African American/Black History Google searches steadily grows and increase monthly.
The Truth will be told.

01/08/2023

Don't worry... One day you will benefit from this trip, right?

22/07/2023

07/07/2023

Smoking and listening to Johnny Hates Jazz. Im still missing my dog, my best friend. He died about a month ago. I have my good days and bad days. Today is a bad one.

04/06/2023

(From my Journal)

From the moment I laid eyes on him, I knew we were meant to be,
My dog Mercer and I, forever together, you see.

He's not just a pet, but a true member of my family,
A loyal companion who loves unconditionally.

He holds my heart and my soul, as I do his too,
Our love is strong, unwavering, and true.

Mercer is my confidant, my partner in crime,
He listens without judgment, and comforts me every time.

When I come home, his barks and tail wagging fill the air,
Excited to see me, his love beyond compare.

I cannot imagine a life without my furry best friend,
Mercer is the best thing that ever happened, to the very end.

Together we'll journey through life, each step with love and care,
For me and my dog Mercer, an unbreakable bond we share.

For my Baby Man, Mercer
14 years together and counting...

Terry H. Mercer
Thursday 10:23 pm
February 23, 2023

05/05/2023

Happy birthday to Chris Brown.
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Chris_Brown

04/05/2023

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Happy Birthday To The Second Oldest Member Of The Jackson Family ! He Is 72 Today!

04/05/2023

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CONGRATULATIONS to CHAKA KHAN on her Induction Into The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame!

04/05/2023

Katherine Jackson turns 93 today, Born May 4, 1930.

She is the matriarch of the Jackson family of entertainers which include her children Michael, Janet, Rebbie,Jackie, Tito, Randy, Jermaine, La Toya and Marlon Jackson.

04/05/2023

30/04/2023

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Let’s make AMERICA GLAM AGAIN! 💅🏾👏🏽✨ AI Conservative Queens. Expanding the universe
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22/04/2023

I wish you the fate of all Disney Villains!

01/04/2023

https://youtu.be/Dieo6bp4zQw

WOKE!
And what WOKE is supposed to mean.
Erykah Badu in HER OWN WORDS about the word "WOKE " in her song in 2008 and its true origin.
Top Republicans like Ron DeSantis are attacking what they call “woke” politics, and even passing laws designed to “stop” a supposed woke agenda. The singer who first brought that concept to the culture, in “Master Teacher,” Erykah Badu, reflects on social justice, culture and “woke politics”

“I Stay Woke. I can tell you what it ‘woke’ means,” she said. “It just means being aware, being in alignment with nature, because if you’re in alignment with that, you’re aware of everything that’s going on.”
Please read article attached for true origin.

Songfacts®:
Erykah Badu's fourth album marks her return to the studio after a bout of writer's block that forced her into a five-year hiatus. In the meantime, she focused on raising her children and learning how to use her laptop as a studio - constructing backing tracks, recording vocals, and communicating with hip-hop producers via instant messenger. Within a year, she composed 75 songs that combined elements of soul, hip-hop, funk, and electronica. A handful of them form the first installment of New Amerykah, which addresses themes of racism, violence, and poverty that are prevalent in the African American community.

"I named this album NU AmErykah because I'm dealing with whatever is to come instead of what was," Badu told Billboard. "In taking on a project like this, I'm taking the responsibility to talk for my race and my planet."
Although Badu wrote most of the tracks on the album, "Master Teacher" wasn't one of them. Written by soul singer Georgia Anne Muldrow, who sings the refrain "I stay woke," the song imagines an idyllic future for African Americans but acknowledges the reality of the systemic issues they face and the pressure to always stay on alert.
"The biggest thing I was trying to communicate is that I could if the conditions weren't so daggone oppressive, for everyone, then, of course, I could be aware!" Muldrow told Pitchfork. "It was an ideal. It wasn't saying, 'I'm woke out here!'"

The song was intended for a 2005 album by the alternative hip-hop trio Sa-Ra, which didn't end up getting released. A few years later, the group started working with Badu on her New Amerykah project and played her the tune, which she immediately fell in love with.

Long before the Black Lives Matter movement adopted the phrase "stay woke" as a rallying cry for social justice, this introduced the term "woke" into the mainstream. But it had already been around for a long time. Harlem author William Melvin Kelley included it in his 1962 New York Times essay "If You're Woke You Dig It" as part of a guide to street slang.

Muldrow first heard it during a late-night conversation with a fellow student at The New School's School of Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City. "She would be like, 'Man, I try to stay woke, but I got to go to sleep.' It was just a natural word in her language. It used to crack me up," Muldrow recalled. The singer adopted the word as her personal motto and had it printed on a T-shirt as a constant reminder to stay on her game at a time when she was struggling emotionally.

"When I wrote it on the T-shirt, I meant it like how it's used now - 'stay woke, stay aware.' I was trying to remind myself to do that because I was breaking,'" she continued.

When she relocated to Los Angeles in the early 2000s, she incorporated the sentiment into "Master Teacher."

Badu may have loved Muldrow's song, but she took some big liberties with it. Muldrow told OK Player that the original version was much more subdued, akin to an African chant, compared to Badu's futuristic funk version. The chorus was also supposed to be "I'd stay woke" rather than "I stay woke" - a subtle, but significant change.

"I wasn't claiming that I was woke," Muldrow insisted. "I never saw myself as woke. I saw myself as aspiring for woke, to try and stay woke. But I knew I wasn't woke."

This contains a sample of Curtis Mayfield's 1972 single "Freddie's Dead" from the Super Fly

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupMaster Teacher Medley · Erykah BaduNew Amerykah Part One (4th World War)℗ 2008 Motown Records, a Division of UMG ...

13/03/2023

I have lived my life openly gay since my senior yr in highschool. That wasn't easy or safe at times. I've been beaten up, beaten down. Been called every gay slur you can imagine or think of. At times ostracized by friends and Family.
I've walked in parades. I've protested. Helped with fundraisers and letter writing campaigns. I've never been afraid to fight for our rights as human beings.
I feel am the person I am because of it.
When my people were finally allowed to get married (yes allowed), I married my boyfriend of 14 years in 2010. I wanted, no I needed to marry him because:
1. I loved him
2. We simply wanted to make a statement.
Being African American, your a minority.
Being Gay is also a minority.
Alot of people don't understand, the mental toll we go thru. Especially when people like family treat you differently after coming out. Or walk away.
It happened then and it is still happening now, believe it or not.
But you still must continue with life.
You still must fight.
I've been fighting this fight since 1987.
But, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
I wasn't supposed to write this much, but my disappointment is guiding these keystrokes.
I wasn't writing this for you to feel sorry for me. I'm writing because I know as human beings, most of us have had to fight for what we believe in at least once in our lives.
Laws are being written to undermine my life and others like myself. Again we don't want pity. We just want to be able to live our lives with the rights as most of you have. That's it.
I want to be able to go to a gay bar and not have to worry about getting gunned down. Make medical decisions for my hubby if needed. Marry. In certain states they want to reverse that. Watch a drag show.
By the way, anyone who has ever been to a drag show, knows there's nothing threatening about drag queens. It's just a culture that most people know nothing about but use it politically. They put on the best shows. I compare it to wrestling. They both put on a great show. But wrestlers wear way less. 😆
Please if you don't mind, and it doesn't go against your views - Support Us.
Almost everyone knows someone a friend or family member.

23/02/2023

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17/02/2023

I just CAN'T. I just can't watch this anymore, right now. This has me in stitches.

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16/02/2023

On this day
1985 - “Careless Whisper” by Wham! Became the #1 Song in America
from February 16 - March 8

16/02/2023

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Happy Birthday To ! He Is 33 Today!

15/02/2023

14/02/2023

The Michigan State University mass shooting makes the 67th in less than 2 months, or since the beginning of 2023. That's a little bit more than 1 a day.
This is America. Our America.
What is it going to take America, to change this?
https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting

13/02/2023

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13/02/2023

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13/02/2023

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09/02/2023

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09/02/2023

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